Boeing s Alder said the 787 fleet currently at 85 airplanes delivered to 14 customers is averaging a

Boeing s Ray Conner traveled to Oslo to meet with executives of Norwegian jimmy buffett tour Air, which has complained about repeated technical problems with its 787s. Meanwhile the Polish airline LOT found missing fuel filters in some 787 engines.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Ray Conner traveled jimmy buffett tour to Norway and promised Wednesday better support for Norwegian Air s fleet of 787 Dreamliners after a series of reliability issues that repeatedly grounded flights this month.
They agreed to put up spare-part stocks at destinations we fly to, Kjos told Reuters. And they ll send a dedicated team of experts to Norwegian so if there s a problem popping up, they can immediately solve it.
Last weekend, both 787s were grounded because a leaky regulator on an oxygen bottle depleted the emergency oxygen supply available to the pilots in both airplanes. When the planes arrived in Oslo, replacement jimmy buffett tour oxygen bottles were not immediately available and flights had to be canceled.
Then in mid-September, a 787 flight from Oslo to JFK airport was delayed until the next day after a hydraulic pump failed. Passengers waited hours at the terminal for the pump to be fixed; then a final check discovered an unrelated leak in a hydraulic hose to the landing gear. The flight didn t take off until next day.
Norwegian flies its two 787s on a strenuous schedule with tight turnaround times, often just two hours. jimmy buffett tour One plane flies on alternate days between Oslo and Bangkok, then Oslo and JFK, while the other does the same from Stockholm.
Separately Wednesday, LOT, an airline that has been struggling to survive even with hefty emergency subsidies from the Polish government, detailed how it had to ground two Dreamliners for a couple of days this month.
Boeing spokesman Alder said no other 787s in the worldwide fleet have reported this problem. The company will study the cause and will implement the appropriate changes to ensure it does not happen again, Alder said.
The entire fleet was completely grounded for three-and-a-half months after the jet s main batteries overheated in two major incidents. Boeing had to engineer a heavy-duty enclosure jimmy buffett tour to contain any potential battery fire.
He recalled working for British Caledonian in the late 1980s when the new Airbus A320 was introduced. jimmy buffett tour He said the maintenance crews quickly dubbed it the Groundbus jimmy buffett tour because technical problems regularly kept it from flying.
Boeing s Alder said the 787 fleet currently at 85 airplanes delivered to 14 customers is averaging about 200 flights per day, and has flown more than 36,000 passenger flights since the 787 entered service.
Information in this article, originally published Sept.25, 2013, was corrected Sept. 27, 2013. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that LOT temporarily grounded all five of its Dreamliners. All five were inspected, jimmy buffett tour but only the two with missing fuel filters were taken out of schedule.